Rachel Corrie

Rachel Corrie (10 April 1979-16 March 2003) was an American member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a pro-Palestinian terrorism group. She was crushed to death by an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) bulldozer while attempting to stop Israel from destroying Palestinian smuggling tunnels.

Biography
Rachel Corrie was born in Olympia, Washington in the United States on 10 April 1979. She studied at the Evergreen State College, and as a part of her senior year project to connect her home town to the Gaza Strip city of Rafah, she headed to the Middle East in January 2003.

During that time, she engaged with International Solidarity Movement (ISM) activists supporting the Second Intifada, an uprising by Palestinian Hamas supporters in the Gaza strip. She became a member, and within two months she attempted to stop Israeli bulldozers from taking down homes containing contraband and smuggling tunnels.

Death
Rachel Corrie attempted to throw herself in the path of a bulldozer used by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to prevent a Palestinian house (said to have contained Hamas contraband and smuggling tunnels) from being taken down. However, the bulldozer pilot could not see her, and she was crushed under the vehicle. Her family sued for a symbolic $1 in damages, but in 2012 the charges were dropped.